Fremantle Arts:

Clare Davies: a miraculous memory

30 January - 14 March 2010

Kathleen O'Connor Gallery

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Clare Davies, a miraculous memory, installation view, courtesy the artist, photography: Thomas Rowe
Clare Davies, a miraculous memory, installation view, courtesy the artist, photography: Thomas Rowe
Clare Davies, pink bulb (detail), 2009, various papers, wire and string, 40 x 40 x 100 cm, photography: Sunny Wignall, courtesy and © the artist

Clare Davies’ magical room, a miraculous memory, drifts between abstraction and figuration, enticing viewers into a scaled-up, three dimensional installation which emanates from a strange, small drawing.

 

With voluminous and linear elements receding and encroaching, the miraculous appears potentially dark and awkward in this floating dreamscape.

 

Fremantle-based Clare Davies has long been intoxicated by the possibilities of dreams. An accomplished animator who has exhibited in the Fremantle Print Award, here she focuses on the often under-valued material of paper.

 

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.